Vimla Mehra, an IPS Officer Encouraging Women Empowerment

Bangalore: Vimla Mehra is the new beacon of hope for many girls aspiring to step in to the roles played mostly by men in India. She is the second women IPS officer to be appointed as the Director General of Tihar Prison, after Kiran Bedi.

With the new position the responsibility and expectations are equally high. She said "My focus would be to build on the good work done by my predecessors. I plan to start more vocational programmes to equip inmates with employment-oriented skills which will give them the confidence to face the outside world after their release," as reported by Supriya Sharma for India Today.

Being appointed in August 2012, Mehra has held the position for about three months now, and has started many foreign language programmes for the women prisioners and the under trials.

In 1984 she got posted to Delhi, just before the anti-Sikh riots started. She said "I was commanding a training battalion then. Then the riots happened and we all were put on duty."

In the next few months she became part of Delhi Police security unit as a special commissioner. Mehra said those years were ‘a dark period’. Even though those were the horrifying times still Mehra sees them as the days which taught her a lot about policing and as situations for handling crimes.

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